kuro11

The only things I can think of that are not already part of the UI would be something like: "Power draw: 1/10/30 (MW)" i.e. show how much power the gun draws after 1 second, 10 seconds, and 30 seconds of continual firing. Also, maybe "1MW N-DPS: xyz" i.e. show what the DPS would be if you wanted to keep the power draw at 1MW (e.g. at 1 second fire rate) So if you wanted to stutter fire manually you'd know what the DPS would be. I don't see a way to get the current ship's power draw - and that might not be useful anyway with many guns. Power management is hard to relate without taking into context things like systems. Any other ideas's you'd to see? Both of those are kinda meh in terms of usefulness in my opinion, so not really sold on the effort.

It SHOULD be taking into account cooldown time loop. e.g. A gun that shoots 1 damage bullets 3 times per second with a Cool Time of 5 seconds and a Hot Fire Time of 2 seconds The calculator would show: 1*3 * ( 2 / (2+5) ) ~= 0.85 DPS (it would round but whatever) In your demo video, the gun does: 196.7 Damage per bullet 24 times per second with a Cool time of 1.8 and a Hot Fire Time of 0.8 that means: 196.7 * 24 * ( 0.8 / ( 0.8 + 1.8 ) ~= 1452 Now, it IS different than the 1521 displayed there in the video, but likely because the display values are not the full (unrounded) values. Also, I use the "dps" property of the weapon provided by the engine as I assumed it is more accurate. Still, that is like a 6% error depending on how I calculate it - still valid for apples to apples and since all guns are calculated the same way you at least know if one gun is better than the next (except Multi fire > 1 and overheating - which, as mentioned, is odd/hacky in how I 'solved' it)

@Kane Hart Neat. I feel internet famous now 8) I'll put that video in the OP since it helps people install it. Not a big fan of having a download / overwrite of the whole script - but if that is the standard at the moment I'll go ahead and do so. Ideally, the dev will allow for decoration of methods as a separate file - much reducing the chance of an update / conflicting mod breaking things. (New to LUA, normally in C# land so I don't know how reasonable that is. Disclaimer my knowledge on that front is ~5 minutes google to here: http://lua-users.org/wiki/DecoratorsAndDocstrings )

@WARGAMES All visuals aside, the key to DPS calc from my testing (again, not 100% confident) are two things: * "simultaneousShooting" * "shotsPerFiring" These two properties are represented as "Multibarrel" on the bottom and "SPF" respectively in this mod. I forced all combinations of those two on testing. An easy example are cannons, which seem to have a higher incidence of "Multibarrel"- when you click once there are X bullets that appear at once. SPF > 1 represents the "burstfire" So, in this gun (an odd case): http://i.imgur.com/C5eoF6C.png There are 9.4 Damage projectiles. A "Fire" occurs 2 times per second. And Multifire = 3 Thus, 9.4*2*3=56.4 visual. The "TurretTemplate" type itself has a "dps" property, which is displayed as the N-DPS value (from what I see, this is likely more accurate than calculating it myself each time based on shots and stuff) (rate of fire, damage are rounded in the UI AND I round the DPS - so that is why we have that 56.4 vs 58) Thus, you get - at a glance - reasonable DPS with all factors accounted for. This includes heat, which is significantly trickier to deal with and before this mod you had basically NO idea how much that factored into a weapons effectiveness. @lyravega That is a really good point - I don't take that into account. I did find a really strange thing ('addressed' by the hack comment in the code) where multibarrel weapons heat up MUCH faster (at 4 barrels - with simultaneousShooting == true ) than expected. Cooldown times were (in the cases I tested, about 20-50 guns generated with /inventory mod) very close to expected in all cases - it was only the getting to overheat that seemed to behave strangely. However, these numbers are accurate enough for me thus far so I don't think I'm going to try and improve them at the moment (I want to actually play the game :P)

DPS listings take into account both cooldown times AND multi-barreled / "burstfire" and whatever combination thereof. Or, should be somewhat accurate - it is designed to do that (no warrenty on it REALLY doing that)

I couldn't find a way to display DPS/Ohms at a glance so I made this. Just put that in 'data/scripts/lib/tooltipmaker.lua' at line 360 (Should be right before 'return tooltip' within the 'makeTurretTooltip' function.) Video with description / install instructions better made than my two lines: if turret.stoneEfficiency == 0 and turret.metalEfficiency == 0 then tooltip:addLine(TooltipLine(15, 15)) local multiShotMod = 1 if turret.simultaneousShooting then multiShotMod = math.pow(0.85,turret.numWeapons - 1) -- hack for multi-shooting weapons with heat issues? found with very poor sample size of a 'study' end local averageHeat = turret.heatPerShot * turret.shotsPerSecond - turret.coolingRate local hotFireTime = multiShotMod*turret.maxHeat*0.85 / averageHeat local coolTime = turret.maxHeat*0.85 / turret.coolingRate local modifier = 1 if turret.maxHeat > 0 then modifier = hotFireTime / (hotFireTime + coolTime) end local line = TooltipLine(lineHeight, fontSize) line.ltext = "N-DPS: " .. round(turret.dps * modifier,0) line.lcolor = ColorRGB(1.0, 0.7, 0.7) tooltip:addLine(line) local line = TooltipLine(lineHeight, fontSize) line.ltext = "S-DPS: " .. round(turret.dps * modifier * turret.shieldDamageMultiplicator,0) line.lcolor = ColorRGB(0.7, 0.7, 1.0) tooltip:addLine(line) local line = TooltipLine(lineHeight, fontSize) line.ltext = "H-DPS: " .. round(turret.dps * modifier * turret.hullDamageMultiplicator,0) line.lcolor = ColorRGB(0.7, 1.0, 0.7) tooltip:addLine(line) if turret.maxHeat > 0 then local line = TooltipLine(lineHeight, fontSize) line.ltext = "Hot Fire Time: " .. round(hotFireTime,1) line.lcolor = ColorRGB(1, 1, 1) tooltip:addLine(line) local line = TooltipLine(lineHeight, fontSize) line.ltext = "Cool Time: " .. round(coolTime,1) line.lcolor = ColorRGB(1, 1, 1) tooltip:addLine(line) local line = TooltipLine(lineHeight, fontSize) line.ltext = "HR/SPF/CR: " .. round(turret.heatPerShot, 1) .. "/" .. round(turret.shotsPerFiring, 1) .. "/" .. round(turret.coolingRate, 1) line.lcolor = ColorRGB(1, 1, 1) tooltip:addLine(line) elseif turret.shotsPerFiring > 1 then local line = TooltipLine(lineHeight, fontSize) line.ltext = "SPF: " .. round(turret.shotsPerFiring, 1) line.lcolor = ColorRGB(1, 1, 1) tooltip:addLine(line) end if turret.simultaneousShooting then local line = TooltipLine(lineHeight, fontSize) line.ltext = "Multifire: " .. turret.numWeapons line.lcolor = ColorRGB(1, 1, 1) tooltip:addLine(line) end end Here is what it looks like: http://imgur.com/a/RVw3C N-DPS is the nominal without mods S-DPS is shield DPS H-DPS is hull DPS Hot Fire Time is how long the gun will shoot after one overheat->cooldown cycle while holding the trigger Cool Time is how long the gun will shoot after one overheat->cooldown cycle while holding the trigger HR/SPF/CR: HR = heat gained per bullet/heat rate, SPF = shots per pull of trigger, CR = cooling rate Multifire = #, the number of barrels that fire in one pull of trigger I was able to make some really odd turrets like a SPF of 3 on a Multifire of 4 to fire 12 rounds each trigger bull. SPF is like the "burst fire" and Multifire is where all the bullets come out at once. Anyway, not guaranteed to work 100%, but it at least gives you an easy glance approximation. Likely easily applied to fighters because turrets and fighters share so many of the same properties. but I don't use them, so... :P Code under WTFPL tooltipmaker.zip